The patch Navy slotbacks will wear. Navy’s slotbacks will wear a uniform patch for teammate Will McKamey during Saturday’s game vs. Army. McKamey died in the spring of 2014, three days after he collapsed during a practice.

Brian Kelly’s team was 4-8 in 2016. Some Notre Dame fans are so unhappy with the state of the school’s football team that they bought a page in the student paper to express their dissatisfaction. The ad appears in the Dec. 7 issue of The Observer student paper. It blames Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick for failures and expresses a lack of confidence in coach Brian Kelly.

After a few years away, Brent Brennan is coming back to one of his college coaching homes. San Jose State announced Wednesday afternoon that the 43-year-old Brennan has been hired as the program’s new head football coach. Brennan will replace Ron Caragher, who was dismissed late last month after four seasons with the Spartans. From 2005-2010, Brennan was an assistant at SJSU under both Dick Tomey and Mike MacIntyre. “We want to recruit high-character young men that are tough and love to play football and also take their academics seriously,” Brennan said. “We’re going to help them grow from young men into men and put a product on the field that anybody who has a connection with Spartan football